Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 62 (1): 137–159 (2019) doi: 10.3897/travaux.62.e38595 RESEARCH ARTICLE Taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa Ana-Maria Petrescu1, Melania Stan1, Iorgu Petrescu1 1 “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, 1 Şos. Kiseleff, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania Corresponding author: Ana-Maria Petrescu ([email protected]) Received 18 December 2018 | Accepted 4 March 2019 | Published 31 July 2019 Citation: Petrescu A-M, Stan M, Petrescu I (2019) Taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 62(1): 137–159. https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.62.e38595 Abstract A comprehensive list of the taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa by collaborators, science personalities who appreciated his work was constituted from surveying the natural history or science museums or university collections from several countries (Romania, Germany, Australia, Israel and United States). The list consists of 33 taxons, with current nomenclature and position in a collection. Historical as- pects have been discussed, in order to provide a depth to the process of collection dissapearance dur- ing more than one century of Romanian zoological research. Natural calamities, wars and the evictions of the museum’s buildings that followed, and sometimes the neglection of the collections following the decease of their founder, are the major problems that contributed gradually to the transformation of the taxon/specimen into a historical landmark and not as an accessible object of further taxonomical inquiry. Keywords Grigore Antipa, museum, type collection, type specimens, new taxa, natural history, zoological col- lections. Introduction This paper is dedicated to 150 year anniversary of Grigore Antipa’s birth, the great Romanian scientist and the founding father of the modern Romanian zoology. This paper is an homage to the man, educator and mentor, from the perspective of his most devoted friends, collaborators and esteemed scientists who dedicated their valuable discoveries to the eternal memory of the founder of the Romanian zoology. Copyright Petrescu, Stan & Petrescu. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 138 Petrescu, Stan & Petrescu During his career, Grigore Antipa helped numerous researchers and professors with recommendations on various forms (for employment, for studying the col- lections of a museum, for obtaining a scholarship or for sending specimens) and in return they manifested their gratitude by dedicating him eight new species (one fossil). In two issues of the 8th volume of Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Na- turelle “Grigore Antipa”, dedicated to Antipa’s Centennial (published in 1968), nine new taxa had been described, eight species and one genus (Achim Barcan 2004). In 2017, the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technique (Division of History of Science), in collaboration with the Romanian Academy of Science celebrated the Romanian scientist with a conference and a vol- ume of papers regarding his activity. In addition, symposium with various commu- nications regarding the personality of Grigore Antipa was organized at the museum which bears his name for 85 years. Between Grigore Antipa’s death and his Centenary celebration, in 1968, oth- er two species had been described and after this, 14 new species and one genus. Although Achim Barcan (2004) compiled a detailed list of species described in Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, where part of the species dedicated to the founder of Romanian zoology can be found, other taxa have been described in other publications, between 1891 and 2018. We present a comprehensive list of the taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa and to his most devoted collaborator, Alina Antipa, with the accepted, original name or synonymies, the actual localization of holotype, paratypes and allotypes in a museo- logical or university collection. We provide more details about life and activity of some of the authors that were almost unknown up today and also the problems of depositing the studied material. Material and methods In the absence of a digital library for museological collections a small survey was made in order to identify the presence of the species dedicated to Grigore Antipa in different research institutions, museums and university collections of Romania (Ag- igea Marine Station and “Ovidius” University - Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Sciences from Constantza, “Alexandru I. Cuza” University - Natural Sciences Fac- ulty of Iași, Natural Science Museum of Vrancea Museum, Focșani, Zoological Mu- seum - “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj, Institute of Biology - Romanian Academy, Bucharest, “The Danube Delta” National Institute for Research and Development, “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology of Bucharest) and from abroad (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg, Australian Mu- seum, Sydney, The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research Center, Tel Aviv University, American Museum of Natural History from New York). Taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa 139 Abbreviations: Coll. no. (collection number), MGAB (”Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History from Bucharest); AMS (Australian Museum, Sydney); AMNH (American Museum of Natural History from New York); CeNak (Center of Natu- ral History, Hamburg University, Zoology Museum); MNHN (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris); SMNHTAU (The Steinhardt Museum of Natural His- tory and National Research Center, Tel Aviv University), ZMUBB (The Zoological Museum of the ”Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj). Results There are 33 taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa, 31 species and two genera. A sum- mary of these taxons and their presence in six collections was comprised in Tabel 1. The taxons are included in major groups such as: Rhodophyta, Gastrotricha, Plathelminthes, Nemertea, Annelida, Acari, Crustacea (Amphipoda, Cumacea, Isopoda, Tanaidacea), Myriapoda, Coleoptera, Diptera, Mecoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Pisces and Mammalia. The specimens originate in Romanian Fau- na and Flora (several counties), also from Cape Kaliakra (now in Bulgaria), from Iran, from Western Indian Ocean (coasts of Tanzania, Romanian expedition from 1973–1974), from the Pacific Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago (Romanian expedi- tion from 1991, mostly from North Sulawesi, Bunaken Island), Tasman Sea (Aus- tralia), from Eastern Atlantic (Ibero-Moroccan coasts), Western Atlantic (Bahamas caves), South Atlantic Ocean (from “USS Eltanin”, “RV Vema” and “Geocosta Rio” Expeditions), from the Caribbean Sea and from Argentina. Most of the specimens dedicated to Grigore Antipa are deposited in the type collection (except insects) and entomological and paleontological collections of “Grigore Antipa” National Mu- seum of Natural History from Bucharest. These are represented by various orders of crustaceans, such as Amphipoda, Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Cumacea (all of them being represented by nine species, one genus) from five families (Amphilocidae, Leptocheliidae, Antheluridae, Nannastacidae and Diastylidae). Other taxons, some of which are valid today, are registered and present as holotypes in the collections of the museum from various groups: five species of insects (Mecoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera). From the chordates two holotypes and one paratype still remains in the collections: the holotype of an Oligocen fossil, Ammodytes antipai, and a holo- type and a paratype of a cyprinid species considered extinct, Romanogobio antipai. Almost all described taxons are still valid, only six taxa and one genus had been synonymized since their publication. Petrescu, Stan & Petrescu 140 Table 1. Summary of the taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa in the museological collections. Taxon First published Publication Type specimen Type locality Presence/absence in a collection Celan 1938; Parviphycus antipai Geliediella antipai Holotype Cape Kaliakra, (Black Sea, Romania) - B. Santelices 2004 Chaetonotus (Marinochaetus) Chaetonotus Rodewald 1938; Holotype Agigea Lake, Constanța (Romania) - antipai antipai Kisielewski 1997 Mureș River, Cigmău (Hunedoara County, Aspidogaster antipai Lepși 1932 Holotype - Romania) Müller 1968; Vama Veche, Romania, Agigea, Costinești, Ototyphlonemertes (Duplex) Ototyphlonemertes Ovidius University (Collection of Prof. Geza Envall and Norenburg Holotype 2 Mai (Romania), Varna, ”Kaba-Kum” antipai antipai Müller) 2001 (Bulgaria) Allolobophora Michaelsen 1891; Proctodrilus antipai antipai Holotype Iași, Romania ZMHV 152 antipae Zicsi 1985 Pneumolaelaps antipai Hypoaspis antipai Solomon 1968 Holotype Jijila, Tulcea, Romania - Euphthiracarus antipai Feider and Călugăr 1968 Holotype Valea Rea (Retezat Mt), Romania - Bunaken, N Sulawesi (Indonesia, SW Gitanopsis antipai Ortiz and Lalana 1997 Holotype MGAB (♀, AMP 429) Pacific Ocean) Holotype Grallatotanais antipai Guțu and Iliffe 2001 Bahamas, Andros Island (Caribbean Sea) MGAB (holotype ♀, 250.178; allotype ♂, 250.179) Allotype Holotype MGAB (holotype ♀, 250.622; paratypes 2 ♀♀, Antiparus longisetosus Guţu 2016 Tanzania (W Indian Ocean) Paratypes 250.623) MGAB (holotype non-ovigerous ♀, MNHN Is Holotype 5851; paratypes, 1 manca, 1 post manca, MNHN Ananthura antipai Negoescu 2005 Gibraltar (E Atlantic